Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2022-11-18
Books mentioned on #635: Jason Calacanis on Brooklyn Grit, Big Asks, Angel Investing (Uber, Calm, Robinhood, and more), The Magic of Thinking Big, and St*bbing People in the Face but Never in the Back
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Jason Calacanis discussed The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande and The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Checklist Manifesto
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande is a non-fiction book that examines how simple lists can dramatically improve safety, efficiency, and organization in high-stakes fields like medicine and aviation.
Discussed“But the bigger piece is there's this book, The Checklist Manifesto, you and I are obsessed with, probably part of our kinship.”
Where to get it
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The 4-Hour Workweek
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss is a highly influential lifestyle design manual that challenges conventional career paths and encourages readers to automate, delegate, and escape the traditional nine-to-five grind.
Discussed“Nobody knew who you were, you were some guy and all of a sudden this 4-Hour Workweek goes from — you got paid nothing for that book and then all of a sudden — wasn't it the same exact experience?”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“He has invested in more than 300 startups in the past decade, who is Sequoia Capital's first scout and is the author of the book Angel.”
“She's like — this is before The 4-Hour Workweek revolution. I mean, this is during the 60-hour reality of being a worker.”
“If you actually read some of the basics, the fundamentals in that book, it outlines just how much self-deception goes into believing that you need 20, 30, 50, a 100 million dollars.”